From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAYlr-0006hO-Ry for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:10:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6GM9QGM007683; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:09:26 GMT Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (c-24-6-168-204.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.168.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6GM7Qd7005434 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:07:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D912480E2 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:55:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id N7RlrV3XGven for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:54:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.100.31] (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C11248079 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:54:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <469AE28A.3050700@burnieanglican.org.au> References: <46968E00.4070202@gentoo.org> <1184536747.18353.55.camel@sputnik886.lnet> <469A9DD4.7090407@gentoo.org> <469AE28A.3050700@burnieanglican.org.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xc1Lk+pKj1O13u/BHlFr" Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1184623580.7942.6.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Archives-Salt: 5def356b-15a3-44b8-b107-dbe420fe7473 X-Archives-Hash: 40b1e7b39be781c21a6aa964bb9ff494 --=-xc1Lk+pKj1O13u/BHlFr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, Will Briggs wrote: > Oh dear. "slight delay" in an email list forum? That's like saying > "you can take part in this face-to-face conversation but you have to > wait 30 seconds before you can say anything" In effect you reduce that > person to an on-looker who can throw in the occassional comment. The > comments themselves are reduced in their relevance or impact because by > the time they are heard, the conversation has moved on. On a mailing list? We're not talking IRC here. We're talking mailing lists. I can take a nap, a full 8 hour sleep, or many times even take the WEEKEND OFF FROM GENTOO and still manage to come back and give useful input. Email isn't exactly instant and nobody who runs a mail server will even pretend that it is. Adding a, say, 3 hour delay between posting and the timeout, doesn't seem to me like it would affect much of anything. After all, I managed to not touch my email since Friday and I am still managing to participate in this conversation. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation --=-xc1Lk+pKj1O13u/BHlFr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGm+vckT4lNIS36YERAt4xAKCCDe/MwsHALdeGMDpS+GnQrnj6rgCfSHuA T2fL7bwqSS9phIn4DUYGHQ4= =xjkE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xc1Lk+pKj1O13u/BHlFr-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list